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sad(a) now → sadašnji
tad(a) then → tadašnji
nekad(a) a time ago → nekadašnji
prije before → prijašnji
English has few adjectives that correspond to Croatian ones: sadašnji translates as
current, present, and nekadašnji as former. For example:
To N su jučerašnje novine N . This is yesterday’s newspaper.
The adjectives derived from adverbs for last evening and last year do not follow this
scheme:
sinoć last evening → sinoćni (also sinoćnji)
lani last year ® → lanjski
One preposition introduced long ago, normally meaning from with G, has a special
meaning with a specific noun strana side:
s¨/sa¨ ... strane on... the side
For example:
Kuće N su s lijeve strane G ulice G . Houses are on the left side of the street.
The same can be expressed with na¨ ... strani, i.e. using a DL expression (which I
personally prefer).
On its own, without any additional words, sa strane usually means aside, apart; in
the same meaning, you can sometimes hear na strani and po strani:
Stajao je sa strane. He was standing aside.
Then, there are couple of interesting prepositions yet unexplained. These two are
quite simple:
niz¨ + A down, along
uz¨ + A up, close to
The basic meaning of them is direction of movement. The preposition niz¨ means
the ‘normal’ direction, i.e. the same direction as the river flows, as hair grows etc.:
Bacila je sve A niz rijeku A . She threw everything down the river.
With steps, ramps, etc. it implies the downward direction:
Trčao sam niz stepenice A . I ran down the stairs.
The preposition niz¨ is used also with paths that have no obvious direction, like
avenues, river banks, roads, trails, simply to indicate movement along something
which is path-like:
Trčao sam niz ulicu A . I ran down the street.
The preposition uz¨ means the opposite direction from niz¨, but also a location close
to, this has been covered in 55 More Prepositions.